Dew Drop – August 15, 2016 (#2309)

Top Links

• TWC9: techbash, Edge VM’s, Extension Toolkit, .NET API Catalog and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
• The Static Void Podcast – .NET Core RTM – Jeff Fritz explains why it could be awesome after all (Jess Chadwick, Chris Gomez & Todd Snyder)
• TechBash 2016 – A Developer Conference By the Community, For the Community (Alvin A.)
• Handling HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Content-Length too large errors without pulling your hair out (Glenn Block)

 

Web Development

• Introducing ‘git size’ (command and visualization) (Paul Hammant)
• Node.js + Express.js Video Walkthrough Part 2 (Adam Anderson)
• Fresh and Useful WordPress Hacks and Snippets (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
• Developing An Angular 2 Application With TypeScript (Mark J. Caplin)
• My Top 20 Favorite Angular JS Developer Tools (Ved Raj)
• Angular Router: Declarative Lazy Loading (Victor Savkin)
• Visual Studio 2015 – Fixing “Dependencies npm not installed” from fsevents with node on Windows (Scott Hanselman)
• What is React? (Remy Sharp)
• Why I’m leaving React behind (Adrian Hall)
• Secure Splunk Web in Five Minutes Using Let’s Encrypt (Anthony Tellez)
• Get started with writing TypeScript today! (Dominik Kundel)
• Containers – Clean up your House (Gabriel Schenker)
• My Web Journey (Jesse Liberty)
• Shahzeb Khan Builds Frank Ocean Album Detection (Megan Speir)
• Better User-Experience to the Cloud Deployment (Tatu Tamminen)
• The “Have I been pwned” API, rate limiting and commercial use (Troy Hunt)
• Introduction To Using Dialogs With The Microsoft Bot Framework and Creating a Skype Bot Using The Microsoft Bot Framework (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Interacting with Cortana in UWP (Adam Pedley)
• Windows 10, UWP and Composition–More Light, Less Shade (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Digging into the CoreCLR: Exceptional costs, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Toolbox Shortcuts: Expand, Collapse, and Find (Peter Vogel)
• STL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 3 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
• Recognizing Hand-Written Digits: Easier Side-By-Side Comparison (Jeremy Clark)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Tests Anti-Patterns: Misleading Tests (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Continuous delivery of Nuget packages to Package Management in TFS15 RC1 (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Logging for Continuous Integration (Erik Dietrich)
• SonarQube analysis of Java code with VSTS (Matteo Emili)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android From Scratch: Google Play Services (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Interacting with Google Assist in Xamarin (Adam Pedley)
• Create An Amazon Alexa Skill Using Node.js And AWS Lambda (Nic Raboy)
• What’s new in Core Data Swift 3.0 (Khalid Afridi)
• MIT and Microsoft Research made a ‘smart’ tattoo that remotely controls your phone (Lauren Goode)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 010 – David Neal on Electron (Matthew D. Groves)
• Episode 315 – PowerScripting Podcast – Michael Greene (Microsoft) and Steven Murawski (Chef) on the Release Pipeline Model (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Extended Classic: StarTalk Live! Satisfying Our Curiosity about Mars (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Agile Coffee podcast, episode 50 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• TPDP Episode #8: Asynchronous and Event-Based Programming with RxJS (Nic Raboy)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – How to engage a Product Owner | Mike Collins (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog 215: Core Infrastructure Initiative Best Practices Badge with David A. Wheeler (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• GeekWire Radio: Olympics streaming tips, ReachNow at the Seattle airport, and more (Clare McGrane)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 101 – Open Sourcerer of Django (Jacob Kaplan-Moss) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Merge Conflict 6: Debugging the Daily Process (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• What The Tech 320: The Next Windows 10 Update (Paul Thurrott)
• Jessy Irwin on Online Security and Data Visualization and the Power of R in PowerBI (Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – Getting Fast First and Developer Tea – My Top Productivity Practice (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Dev Days: More Dates & More Cities! (Jayme Singleton)
• Working full-time on Gatsby (Kyle Mathews)
• Speaking Tips: Slow Down and Drink and Speaking Tips: Never Memorize and Speaking Tips: No Speaker Notes (Ted Neward)
• Announcing: 2017 Eat Your Science Tour (Alton Brown)

 

Database

• Installing new SQL Server sample databases: WideWorldImporters (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Installation Fails With Error – A Constraint Violation Occurred and SQL SERVER – A Timeout (30000 milliseconds) was Reached While Waiting for a Transaction Response from the MSSQLSERVER and How to Drop Clustered Index on Primary Key Column? – Interview Question of the Week #084 (Pinal Dave)
• More Master Data Services (MDS) Tips and Tricks (Svetlana Golovko)
• Database Building 101: Let us graph this for real (Oren Eini)
• Questions About Azure SQL Database You Were Too Shy to Ask (Murilo Miranda)
• SQL Compare – time for you to tell us how it compares (Carly Meichen)
• Free eBook: Introducing Microsoft Power BI (Chris Pietschmann)
• Azure SQL Database Advisor (Esteban Garcia)

 

PowerShell

• Friday Fun: capture pokemon using PowerShell (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Editorial: Why the app gap on Windows Phone/10 Mobile is a bigger problem than I thought (msicc)
• Star Wars actor behind R2-D2, Kenny Baker, dead at 81 (Adario Strange)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2157 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #237 (Pedro Botelho)
• It’s #FridayFive time! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #245 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 8th – August 14th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: August 15, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Docker Weekly | Roundup (Cari Scardina)
• GameDev News – Week Ending August 12, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-08-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-08-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #115 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #33, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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